[Beowulf] cluster deployment and config management

[John Hearns]

Fusty?   Lachlan - you really are fromt he Western Isles aren't you?

Another word:  'oose'  - the fluff which collects under the bed. Or inside
servers.

On 5 September 2017 at 08:57, Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 09/05/17 08:43, Stu Midgley wrote:
> > Interesting.  Ansible has come up a few times.
> >
> > Our largest cluster is 2000 KNL nodes and we are looking towards 10k...
> > so it needs to scale well :)
> >
> We went with ansible at the end of 2015 until we hit a road block with
> it not using a client daemon a fat ferew months. When having a few 1000
> states to perform on each client, the lag for initiating the next state
> centrally from the server was quite noticeable - in the end a single run
> took more than half an hour without any changes (for a single host!).
>
> After that we re-evaluated with salt stack being the outcome scaling
> well enough for our O(2500) clients.
>
> Note, I ave not tracked if and how ansible progressed over the past
> ~2yrs which may or may not exhibit the same problems today.
>
> Cheers
>
> Carsten
>
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